Grooming Gangs: UKIP’s Opportunity and Responsibility

One unfortunate by-product of Rotherham Labour MPs’ successful libel case against UKIP’s Yorkshire MEP Jane Collins is that some members of our party are now less willing to tackle the national grooming gang scandal – the sexual exploitation and abuse of mainly young white English girls by mostly older Pakistani-heritage Muslim men.

Mind you, there always were senior party members who insisted that UKIP should not touch the issue. When I started investigating grooming gang activities in Hartlepool and Teesside, I was informed that UKIP’s former General Secretary and North East MEP Jonathan Arnott would not engage with the problem because it would be ‘anti-Muslim’ or ‘racist’ to do so.

This is the same sickening politically-correct excuse that the old parties and local authorities use. It has allowed the abuse of thousands of young girls – over 1,400 in Rotherham alone. And it was revealed just last week that men from Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other Muslim backgrounds have openly abused “with arrogant persistence” over 700 girls in Mr Arnott’s own constituency of North East England.

It’s a total disappointment that UKIP’s elected representative for the area decided to pass by on the other side over this problem. We can be pleased he’s now left the party.

But Jane Collins is made of sterner stuff and was absolutely right to expose Labour’s culpability in the Rotherham scandal. Whistle-blower Jayne Senior’s book ‘Broken and Betrayed’, amongst others, provides clear evidence that the Labour-run local authority not only looked the other way but also was responsible for covering up the abuse.

The problem is that Jane Collins chose the wrong Labour target. Instead of attacking the local authority she instead cited the three Rotherham Labour MPs one of whom, Sarah Champion, has in fact campaigned hard since her election in 2012 to protect the girls and expose the scandal. Ms Champion was even sacked from Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench for publicly identifying the rapists as Pakistani men and the victims as white girls. It is, therefore, no surprise that Jane Collins lost the libel case.

But the issue remains and girls are still being abused, and the evidence is that this phenomenon has occurred particularly in Labour fiefdoms like Rochdale, Oldham, Bradford, Blackburn, Derby, Leicester, Oxford, Newcastle – and of course Rotherham.

The destructive effect of Labour’s PC attitudes is horribly illustrated by the devastation caused to the lives of over 1,400 young girls in Rotherham. This is what the government’s independent Casey Review says (p160):

“The case of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham was a catastrophic example of authorities turning a blind eye to harm in order to avoid the need to confront a particular community. The town saw upwards of 1,400 children sexually exploited over more than a decade; groomed by predominantly Pakistani-heritage men offering drugs, alcohol and attention followed by sexual abuse and mental and physical coercion.

Despite the widespread knowledge of this practice across the local authority, statutory partnerships and many local residents, those with the power to act chose to defend ‘community cohesion’ and political correctness over the vulnerable children in their care. Destroying evidence of perpetrator ethnicity and shutting down services was preferable to confronting criminals from a minority ethnic community; such was their fear of offending local cultural sensitivities.”

UKIP is the only national party that opposes political correctness, combats the widespread refusal to see and name reality as it really is, and refuses to play the PC game. We did it over Brexit. We especially did it over mass immigration. Unilaterally we changed the political agenda and reset the political debate; this was because to UKIP it is more important to tell the truth than to avoid offending someone’s feelings or sensibilities.

This doesn’t make us popular with the political class or with some vocal minorities on the Left, but it does make us a radical anti-establishment party that ordinary people like and support.

We now have the electoral opportunity and moral responsibility to enter the fray over the issue. For the sake of the girls and their families who still suffer, we must campaign to terminate Labour Party domination of grooming gang towns across the North and Midlands, and put an end to their harmful political correctness.

Local elections on 3rd May are less than nine weeks away. Let’s start there.

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24 Comments

t g spokes
on March 5, 2018 at 4:51 pm

Sirs

This libel case gone wrong is a good example of a miscarriage of justice. If any one of the 3 MPs were doing their jobs, they will have been aware. It appears to have been common knowledge in the corridors of sewage called a Labour Council. Without any doubt for a judge to pronounce on this is the law. PC . The law should not be abused in this way. I weep.

Look for the clues, they are there in every run down town away from London. Clues abound. Unless you’re a policeman of course and well hidden away from the streets, by Mrs May’s inheritance.

Peter Ashcroft
on March 5, 2018 at 4:06 pm

Sexual exploitation must be prosecuted.
Although the majority of the population, whatever their Race, Creed, & Colour,, are law-abiding, the exceptions, whatever their beliefs must be punished for breaking the law.

Marie
on March 2, 2018 at 7:55 pm

but what if… Sarah Chapion was using extreme covering tactics to deflect blame, had she been aware of the said cover up?
Maybe she was desperate to cover up her privaged information that the local council and the 3 MPs were all privy too but did nothing and worse covered it up..? Politics is a selfish dirty game especially by those who would sacrifice children, then offer to help them?

Emily
on March 2, 2018 at 3:49 pm

mmThe best way I could think of to support Gerard – supporting him as I do in his his confronting of islam and the immigration isssue – I have sent in a one off extra donation.
Can anyone else spare a little extra in the kitty to show backing for him.https://electmps-ukip.nationbuilder.com/elect_ukip_mps
Easy to talk as we do, but he needs more than that – so does the party.
Even a tenner can help.

t g spokes
on March 5, 2018 at 4:21 pm

Done

Deborah Pitt
on March 2, 2018 at 3:32 pm

Thank you, Alan, for this clear-sighted review of those scandalous crimes in Rotherham and the pusillanimous response of
local councils and the police. I thought one of the virtues of those ‘up north’ was to call a spade a spade.

The bad judgment of Jonathan Arnott is to be deprecated indeed, but Jane Collins’ heart was in the right place. It is most unfortunate that she has suffered this collateral damage from the painful and disgraceful Rotherham outrage. Yes, there are lessons to be learned but we must not back off from confronting such evil as happened there.

Roger Gough
on March 2, 2018 at 3:18 pm

UKIP is not the only officially accredited party that seeks to strike down political correctness – the recently launched Democrats and Veterans UK party also seek to do that. Ex-UKIP members are not unknown in their membership. It’s also easy to forget (because no one reminds us) that Rotherham’s Labour Council, without warning or justifiable reason, took 3 young foster children of Eastern European origin away from a couple in that area simply because – shock horror – it had come to the Council’s notice that the couple were UKIP members and, as such, deemed the children to be in ‘danger’. Help from local UKIPpers enabled them to foster from an adjacent Council but this spiteful, vicious and unwarranted behaviour by that Council shows Labour to be the godawful self-serving bunch that disgraces British politics. In answering the criticism that justifiably ensued, the council said “Nothing to do with us Guv, it was the agency wot dun it”. The couple concerned, for fairly obvious reasons, did not want to be identified (they couldn’t have been with children involved) but it’s an episode that should never be allowed to be forgotten – if only, in the uncommon circumstances, for it’s dreadful irony.

t g spokes
on March 2, 2018 at 3:10 pm

Sirs & Madams

Is this not a situation where Any action tried by UKIP and its members ,needs careful handling. WE have a leader now, we have some sort of NEC, of which I heartily disapprove ( Mainly because of its desparate defence of the poor constitution, which appears to have been put together by amateurs hell bent on covering every thing they can think of ) By now presumably a person, body, or committee has been formed to advise on What can be said or not.For example could a national leaflet be produced Headed “UKIP Will provide help or advice for children groomed or abused by grooming gangs. Contact your local UKIP branch for advice” or some such as ” This activity is illegal. Contact your local policeman ”

This is a clear example of an issue tailor made for UKIP. And an example of the lack of organisation . Or even the slightest recognition of its lack. I’m sure GB will get it sorted when the congrantulators ,hand pressers, sycophants, and bankrupt get irritating.

Tony Woodcock
on March 2, 2018 at 1:34 pm

Can anyone enlighten me as to what government has done to tackle this grooming. I seem to remember Louise Casey referred to it in a report. But has anything been done?
It is my contention that we should all be demanding that government and the Home Office protect British citizens effectively. If that means changing the softly softly instructions to the police, then get on with it.
We pay in our taxes for official protection so that we don’t have to take the law into our own hands. But if they continue to let us down, then what?
Nevertheless, I cannot help thinking that unless we, the public, drain the monsters from the Westmonster swamp, we will be wasting our time. That goes for Brexit, too.

Emily
on March 2, 2018 at 1:06 pm

We must fight on this issue,
Fight hard and loudly.
Interestingly Nick Griffin was acquitted by two 9as I remember) courst when he stood up and pointed the finger.
Have we any good lawyers in UKIP
Any good legal minds?
Would it be worth getting the court transcripts from these two outrageously unjust prosecutions and see on which grounds and exactly why he was cleared.
Precedent is always helpful.
It may give us helpful guidelines.
As for Jane Collins – she tried.
Her legal team seem utterly useless – they should have picked up the problem.
How much were they paid?
Extreme negligence in my book.

Jake Bennett
on March 2, 2018 at 1:26 pm

Emily

Please correct me if I am wrong but the case bankrupted the BNP. Great win, great lawyers, but it finished the BNP.
Can UKIP afford to be a martyr to a single issue however important it may be.

Emily
on March 2, 2018 at 3:14 pm

I don’t think that is what finished the BNP.
It was not that which finished the BNP.
It was the odious Griffin himself.
He tried to throw out any opposition to his leadership – he split the party – drove away many of the hard workers and the best people – and make no mistake there were some very good people….and we turned them away – more fool UKIP.
In my view UKIP has largely almost repeated the BNPs mistakes.
You get a leader who is intent on 100% domination and when crossed turns on you or the party.
Who cannot tolerate opposition.
It is not pretty.
Lets just hope we have more luck than the BNP did when their leader went rogue.

Hitler and Mussolini were equally “intent on 100% domination” of their own party. Indeed when it suited him. Hitler had his own SA members – the “heavy mob” who had helped him win power – murdered by his SS paramilitaries, sworn to serve him personally.
Stalin had all the old Bolsheviks who had led the 1917 revolution expelled, tried and killed.
The BNP also appears to aim at a dictatorship – so is it surprising. Dissent is not tolerated, by definition.
Their leader was not going “rogue” but running true to form.

Why not try Piers Wauchope? He is, or was, on the NEC, and he heads, or used to, a “UKIP lawyers group”.
I wonder how on earth was Jane Collins not advised/aware that Sarah Champion (the one who sued her, as I understand from this article) was not the right target? Indeed, that she was on the right side? It seems to be a quite extraordinary cock-up.

Jake Bennett
on March 2, 2018 at 12:11 pm

Like you Alan I am hugely disappointed with Jonathan Arnott – good riddance to him.

If a street savvy and experienced politician like Jane Collins can get herself and the Party into deep trouble on this issue think what kind of trouble and damage to the Party inexperienced activists can get into who pursue this issue.
Yes, we are the party that fights political correctness in all its various guises and should continue to do so but we are also the Party that is hated by the establishment and there is nothing more they love to do, with some success, than to enthusiastically take action to destroy us in the sphere of race and Islam.

Before wading further into this incredibly politically dangerous issue the Party must consult deeply with those activists/branches who have first hand experience of this issue in their constituencies.

As important as this issue is we must not lose sight of the hard fact that Brexit must be our priority for now.

Purple Potty Mouth
on March 2, 2018 at 10:57 am

Well of course there are paedos and those who abuse vulnerable young girls and women who have a white skin; how the names trip off the tongue – Weinstein, Saville and all those sports coaches and Catholic priests. Can you think of a greater vulnerability than lying, paralysed from a spinal injury while the vile ‘charidee hero’ Saville fumbles and gropes? Saville was uniquely revolting but the other abusers do have a pattern – put themselves in a position of power over those whom they wish to abuse. All over the world troubled girls are groomed and pimped by low life and all over the world police know these criminal gangs and individuals exist. If they don’t take action it is because they are corruptible and take bribes to look the other way.
What is special about the Muslim grooming gangs in the UK is that they are too AFRAID to take action. Afraid of losing votes, afraid of being called ‘wayycist’, afraid of the reaction from the disgusted general public against any member of the Pakistani diaspora.
This is our job in UKIP – to stand up and state baldy that a crime is a crime, abuse is abuse and we WILL NOT stand by and look the other way. And go on troll me for this statement – we are just as guilty of letting down all the decent people in these communities, by letting some members act out their medieval attitudes to women through criminal activity, as we are the girls they prey on.

To PPM: Weinstein and even Saville should not be confused with Muslim grooming gangs, by mentioning them you are following

Vince Cable when he used well know names on Question Time and other programmes. He was trying to make the Muslim gang’s crimes

lesser than they were! Kippers should be very careful of bringing distractions into any point they are trying to make.

mmcg
on March 3, 2018 at 8:32 am

Of course we (the UK) have our own sexual deviants and so we certainly don’t need to import more and then treat them as though they are untouchable. I believe the problem of Muslim rape gangs goes far beyond what most people can imagine and this is largely because the problem is suppressed by the Establishment.

Peter Dean
on March 2, 2018 at 10:28 am

we need to get a petition going to get the grooming gang members deported from the UK for life

Purple Potty Mouth
on March 2, 2018 at 11:42 am

What if the scumbags were born here?

Simon
on March 2, 2018 at 3:56 pm

Too bad. If I was born in China doesn’t mean I can’t be sent back to uk.
We need a clear simply political message that the voters understand.
Deport and stop immigration from Pakistan.
Anything less is too complex.
Show me anyone who won’t agree with that message. If they don’t then they are too far gone and would never vote for us anyway.

Brenda Rattle
on March 2, 2018 at 3:59 pm

Send them wherever their ancestors came from.

Regards.

Peter Dean
on March 3, 2018 at 7:58 am

then look them away for life no getting out or there can leave the uk and if there return at any time in there life they go back to jail for life

John Francis
on March 2, 2018 at 9:44 am

Hear Hear!
Well said Alan. There are many issues that the political class force onto the silent majority of this Country.
Mass immigration and the watering down of Brexit being only 2.
UKIP have a great opportunity to speak out in support of the silent majority on these often controversial issues.
With the hoped for surge in new and returning members to the UKIP fold (VAT, FLA and former members returning now Bolton is simply a name from the past), it is to be hoped that Gerard Batten can galvanise the Party and move it forward to be the voice of the people and not the brainwashed.

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